Africana People in China
Subtitle: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Migration Experiences, Identity, and Precarious Employment
By: by C. Jama Adams
Edition: First edition.
Series: Explorations in Mental Health; Explorations in mental health series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Boca Raton, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780429438448
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Africans; African diaspora; Africains; PSYCHOLOGY; Research & Methodology; Ethnopsychology; Africana studies; Adaptive ambivalence; Carlton Jama Adams; Globalization; Identity; Mental health research; Migrant workers; Migration studies; Otherness; Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytic perspectives; Psychosocial perspective; Risk-management; Self-development; Self-making
Description: This book examines the psychosocial experiences of foreign workers from Africa and its diaspora in China, within the context of international socio-economic forces. By exploring employment-based migration from a psychoanalytic perspective, this volume investigates the utility of adaptive ambivalence and the challenges that migrant workers face around issues of self-development, agency, and identity. Through a careful analysis of interviews with Africana people, the author demonstrates that the capacity to be reflective and resilient alongside having a strong and diversified support network are crucial for the psychological well-being of those living and working in unfamiliar geographic and cultural conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction --; title: 2. Self in the World --; title: 3. Adaptive Ambivalence --; title: 4. Modernity and Migration --; title: 5. China: Race and Ethnicity --; title: 6. Contemporary Blackness in China: Psychosocial Perspectives; Aspirations and Constraints --; title: 7. Africana Persons and Self-Making in China --; title: 8. Conclusions and Possibilities for the Future